Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






2. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






3. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






4. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






5. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






6. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






7. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






8. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






9. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






10. A three-line stanza.






11. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






12. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






13. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






14. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






15. A four line stanza in a poem.






16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






17. A character struggles against some outside force.






18. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






19. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






20. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






21. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






22. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






23. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






24. The main character of a literary work.






25. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






26. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






27. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






28. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






29. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






30. What a story or play is about.






31. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






32. Broken down acts.






33. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






34. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






35. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






37. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






38. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






39. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






40. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






41. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






42. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






43. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






44. The organizational form of a literary work.






45. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






46. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






47. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






48. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






49. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






50. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests